التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Health-related quality of life among disease-free stomach cancer survivors in Korea. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jae-Moon Bae1, Sung Kim2, Young-Woo Kim1, Keun Won Ryu1, Jun Ho Lee1, Jae-Hyung Noh2, Tae-Sung Sohn2, Seong-Kweon Hong2, Sang Min Park1, Chang Hoon You1, Jung Hee Kim1, Myung Kyung Lee1, Young Ho Yun1 lawyun08@ncc.re.kr |
| المصدر: |
Quality of Life Research. Dec2006, Vol. 15 Issue 10, p1587-1596. 10p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*QUALITY of life, *CANCER patients, *STOMACH cancer, *GASTRECTOMY, *SMOKING |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
KOREA |
| مستخلص: |
Previous studies about the quality of life (QOL) in stomach cancer survivors focused on selected clinical parameters and did not consider the broader implications for overall health and QOL. We evaluated the impact of demographic and treatment-related factors on the QOL of stomach cancer survivors. We asked 391 stage I–III stomach cancer survivors who had been disease-free for at least 1 year after surgery to complete a demographic questionnaire, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 questionnaire, and its stomach module, QLQ-STO22. Survivors undergoing total gastrectomy reported greater eating restrictions than those undergoing subtotal gastrectomy. Receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy did not significantly affect any QLQ-C30 or QLQ-STO22 scores. Role and emotional functioning improved with increasing age, and stomach-specific symptoms (pain, eating restrictions, and anxiety) lessened. Compared with female survivors, male survivors had better physical and role functioning. Smoking status was also a significant negative predictor of physical functioning and anxiety. Comorbidities and selected demographic characteristics had a greater effect than type of treatment on the QOL of post-operative stomach cancer patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Academic Search Index |
Full Text Finder